Ghana became the first country to receive the vaccine on Wednesday, marking an important step for the international effort to help low- and middle-income countries cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In all, the COVAX alliance hopes to deliver nearly 2 billion doses of the vaccines this year.
The 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine that arrived in Ghana were produced by the Serum Institute of India.The COVAX initiative was created to boost equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly for lower-income countries.